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CHANGE OF FLAG IN CHINA FLEET.
The appointment dates from December 20 of Vice-Admiral W. A. Howard Kelly to be Con inander-in-Chief in China, but he will not actually succeod Admiral Sir Arthur Waistel until about February 28. Vico-Admiral Kelly will leave London in the Awalpindi on January 23, and is due at Hong Kong on Feb. 27.
Rescue of Hedwig Crew. The officer responsible for the excellent boat work which resulted in the rescue of the crew of 14 of the German motor ship Hedwig ca December
Commander 3, was
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Blackwood and Teak Halstand, Mar de Spirituelle, I've got in robe,"
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The six boys sopranos sang very well indeed. "Pipes of Pan,” from the Arcadians, was their best num- ber, though, with the men, they made the old rafters echo with Men of Harlech." The solos by Knox Godfrey wore carefully ren- dered, but, especially in the Gounod Serenade, the accompani ment was too strong.
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The second half opened with a. short selection of sacred music, and the programme finished appro priately with "Widdicombe Fair! and Oh Dear, What can the Matter be."
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The Westminster Glee Singers are here another five nights, and a. matinee on Saturday, and wo are Bure that everyone who heard them last night will do his and her best to go and hear the other pro- TERMS:-CASH ON DELIVERY. grammes. It is a joy to listen to this sane and homely music of our native land, und wo should at least give our full support to Mr. Brans combe and his talented troupe..
PROGRAMME,
Part I.
Waltz: "Breeza of the Night".....(Charles Lamothe)
(The Gentlemen). Unison Song: "The Pipes of
Pan"
(Lionel Moncton) (The Day Sopranos). Bas Solos Youth will needs have
Dalliance"
London, January 10-I learn in a well-informed quarter, which is regarded to reflect the official view that the salen of silver by the Vocal Government of India constitute à comparatively negligible factor in the silver situation of the world, says a' correspondent in the North China Daily News. A more serious element is the large return of silver rupees to the treasuries of the Government of India since the publication of the Hilton-Young Report (1928), --å
(Sir A. Sullivan), (Words by
King Henry VIII.) (James Barber). Part Song: "Orpheus with his Luto......(Sir Edward German).
(The Glec Singers), Soprano Song: "Serenade
(Chas Gounod) (Knox Godfrey).
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E. B. F. Fegen, of H.M.S. Suffolk, the son of the Into Ad- miral Frederick F. Fégen, M.V.O. That Report, inter alia, recom
aground in mended that the ordinary medium The Hedwig ran rough very
weather on the of circulation in India" should Glee: "Haste Ye, Soft Gales"...... Pratas reef, hetween the coast in the currency hote" and the
of China and the Philippines, silver rupee, and that the stability Details have already been publish ed, and in the House of Commons un Deo. 17 it was announced that Admiralty appreciation had been conveyed to those concerned. Coin mander Fegen has had 28 years naval service.
Four more submarines, delayed from the programines of 1028 and 1927, should “be ready to proceed to the China Station early in the Now Year.
The Olympus will complete iterations at Devonport
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of the currency in terms of gold should be secured by making the currency directly convertable into gold for all purposes, but that gold should not circulate" · ́às money. An obligation should be imposed by statute on the currenty A authority to buy and sell gold without "limit at "rates détermined with reference to a fixed gold purity of the rupees but in quan litics of hot. less than 400 fine ounces, no limitation being impos ed na to the purpose for which the gold was required.
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(G. W. Martin) (The Gentlemen), Song(Ernest McKinley). Shanties (with chorus)...... (arr. by Sir Richard Terry) Clear the Trick "
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"Tom's gone to Hilo "
"Billy Boy
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"All Through the Night "" "The Men of Harlech " "(The Glee Singurs).
INTERVAL.
Part I
A Short Selection of Sacred Music
(The Glee Singers). Scottish Air: "Yo Banks and
Braca (arbeid) (with vocal accompaniment). (Donald Reid). Humorous Quartet: There are
Women
(Donald Reid) (The Gentlemen). Baritone Song: "Silent Noon"
(Vaughan Williams) (Wilfrid Thomas). Group of Old English County
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The Lark in the Mom.
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I'm Seventeen come Sunday
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"Oh dear, What can the Matter
Be!!! (Suffolk).
(arr. by E Branscombe) (The Glee Singers),., God Save the King.
The Commission also assumed the transfer of tho-management of the on Jun. 21. The Orphicus paper currency and the conduct of
the Government of India's remit already completed' at Portsmouth
tances to the Imperial Bank of The Parthian has been made ready India, and when the scheme came at Chatham, and early in January fully into operation that gold coin "and" banknotes sisould he unlimit- the Pheniz was completed at the ed legal tender and rupees up to. works of Cammell Laird and Co. | Ra, 50 only.. Birkenhead. Four of the "O' type Until recently the production of submarines are now in China, and eilver bas remained more or less four of the "P" class are at constant. It is estimated that ralt on their way out. The two 240,000,000 ounces were produced in A recently in collision, the Pandora 1000 na against 200,000,000 ounces, in 1929. With the present low und Frottis will be repaired there, spares being sent from England. prices continuing further reduc tion in the current year is expect- The Pernetis and Posiedon were toed. As silver is being produced proceed without, then leaving on
largely as a by-product the reduc tion in the supply has been made difficult owing to the decline in Staff Intelligence Officer.
prices. So long as other producers Commander F. I. P. Mouride, continue the output on lines indst who was promoted in the midson profitable to themselves tlio bugges mer list, will join the staff at the tion that the Government of India. Admiralty on Jan, 1 for temporary [should, deny to itself, the right to duty bofore taking up the post of liquidate by moderate sales its ad- stan ondert you intelligenbe Grüninefropoor for pimet Sarversa memadamk with Vice-Admiral W, A Toward tion Kelly, the newly appointed Com The recent fall is due to the fact mander-in-Chief in China. He that China's import trade has not Buceceds Liout Commander W. B. revived to the same extent as the Keith, one of the few exotutive export trade. Consequently there oficers who hre qualified as inter has been very little demand for preters in Japanese. Commander silver, and the demand, if any. Maurice specialised in torpadoes thing, has been for golda
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A Song of Cider (Hereford-
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(James Barber). "Among the Leaves so Green-0" (Warwickshire)... (arr. by Cecil Sharp). (Maxwell Oldaker and the
The Boy Bopranos: Paul Robia- son, Robert Cook, Alan Goodered, Desmond White, Knox Godfrey, Thomas Turner.
The Male Altps:--Donald Reid and William Lowry.
The Tenors: Ernest McKinley,· Robert Scott and Maxwell Olda
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